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The salary cap is real, and Micah Parsons has value like Herschel Walker did in 1989. We can't keep them all, so why not trade for help at defensive tackle, cornerback or offensive line and picks? Then you also have that money for others like DaRon Bland, George Pickens, etc. – Joseph Incalcaterra/Princeton, TX

Mickey: Joseph, if you know the inner-workings of the Herschel Walker trade, those days are over. The majority of those draft choices were tied to players involved in the trade, basically expendable ones. The Vikings thought the Cowboys would surely keep those veteran players, wanting to get good in a hurry. Jimmy did not, he wanted the corresponding draft choices tied to the players. Thus, the bundle of picks since the Cowboys released the majority of them, though signing a couple back like Ike Holt and David Howard. The difficulty in pulling off one of those types of trades is finding a trading partner who can meet your return demands that can also afford to meet Parsons' contract demands within their salary cap. There was no salary cap back then. If it were me, I'd want to start with two first-round picks in next year's draft, along with at least one prominent starter. At least. And at this point looks as if only the Rams and Browns have two first rounders next year. Plus, Parsons doesn't want to go anywhere, and the Cowboys really don't want to trade him, and if they did, and they started shopping him around, then the price a team would be willing to pay will go down if thinking you are desperate to unload the player. Whereas Jimmy thought Walker expendable, thus clearing the way to draft Emmitt Smith.

Tommy: There will never be another Herschel Walker like trade in the NFL. That said, the only time I would start even listening to any trade offers for Micah Parsons would be if I was offered a haul similar towhat the Cowboys got for Walker. Part of what made the Herschel trade so great for Dallas was the fact that they hit on so many of the draft picks they gave up. That's not always the case, and there's an element of luck to it as well. I'll take a guaranteed game-wrecker that's proven to be one of the best defensive players in the league year in and year out over a crop of players that could end up being good. The salary cap is something to consider, of course, but a premium pass rusher is something that you never want to move on from one if you don't have to.

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